WILLIAM FRUCHT 

Connecticut: Self-Portrait of a State

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The most difficult word in photography is "of." "What's it of?" Unlike some other art forms, which need not reference anything physical at all, photography is inextricably bound to the real world. There must be something in front of the camera, to make an image. There must be an "of."

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But "of" is not "about," and in these images I have sought to create tension between "of" and "about." The "of" is mundane and ordered. The "about" concerns color, form, shadow, the way light falls on the world and makes plain things beautiful. These images are also, as a self-portrait must be, about my way of being in the world: my impatience with the superficially pleasing, my love of solitary contemplation, and my wish, too seldom granted, to see everything as if for the first time.

Atlantic St Bridgeport.jpg
Best Buy.jpg
Bosworth Street Providence.jpg
Candlewood Isle Causeway New Fairfield 1
Candlewood Isle Causeway New Fairfield 2
Danbury Fair Mall.jpg
Dillon Road Woodbridge.jpg
Federal Road Danbury.jpg
Lake Avenue Danbury 1.jpg
Lake Avenue Danbury 2.jpg
Lake Avenue Danbury 3.jpg
Long Beach St Bridgeport 1.jpg
Long Beach St Bridgeport 2.jpg
Long Beach St Bridgeport 3.jpg
Main St Bridgeport 1.jpg
Main St Bridgeport 2.jpg
Main St Torrington 1.jpg
Main St Torrington 2.jpg
Maple Avenue Ansonia.jpg
Miry Brook Rd Danbury.jpg
Nod Hill Rd Ridgefield.jpg
Pearl Street Seymour.jpg
Pleasant St Waterbury.jpg
Roosevelt Ave Derby.jpg
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